abc news producer jim debrill is in breezy point and joins us live on the phone. jim, tell me what's going on out there. >> you know, i'm in a community of 4,200 homes out here. this is a community that lost the most people during 9/11, firefighters and cops, during 9/11. this community was hit horribly tonight. around 6:30, they lost power. then the water came rushing in. and many here expected there would be flooding, there would be loss of power. but then this fire just erupted on one of the walks out here. and went from walk to walk to walk. we were in a home and the fire was literally right across from us. and as this fire just spread, we evacuated not once, we waded our way to another home, and then realized that the parking lot we were next to, the cars literally started to blow up in that parking lot. so we had to leave there, we went to another home. again, the fire continued to spread. my understanding, it has spread across about 12 blocks of breezy point. an area that they call the wedge. it's a place i'm very familiar with. i spent my summers down here

have a seat, jim. >> thank you, jim. >> thank you so much. we had kind of a strange thing today, a bit of a fiasco. we've got all this new tech that everybody's excited about, the internet. and we've got a company that we all thought was doing pretty well. maybe not doing so well. maybe a slowdown. we also had a fiasco where a release was -- because of technology run amok -- done midday. it was terrible. but there's another kind of technology. it's the kind of technology you've exposed me here today to, timken. could you talk about the technology that is not the personal computer and is not the internet but is something that's putting people to work and you're having great success with? >> jim, timken's a technology company. as you said, we're 100 years old. we were founded by a guy who invented the tapered bearing. for 100 years that's basically all we made. in the last decade we've transformed ourselves and the transformation started when we recognized it's what we know, not what we sell that's important. once -- >> what's here. >> it's wha

the big decision, as jim mentioned, is still to come. nbc's harry smith got in with a camera crew today, where the con-ed executives were facing what was for them an unprecedented decision. >> reporter: what are you anticipating having to do later on this evening? >> the big question is going to happen at about 8:00 tonight, when we're going to have to make a decision of whether to shut down the financial center of manhatta >> reporter: and what would that be predicated on? >> the water level, tide, we show back there it is forecasted to be somewhere between 11-12 peak. and that would be the highest tide the city has ever seen. >> and that is exactly what jim cantore was talking about. if that happens, if water throws into power systems underground, there goes wall street, it is already supposed to be closed tomorrow. we could be looking worst case at the rest of the week for the beating financial heart of the united states. and certainly, lower manhattan. we want to briefly show you a very rare sight, a live picture, and the -- hurrican

very inspired by it and moved. >> jim harbaugh, opening up on the giants. >> have a good night.

great stuff. >> that is jim harbaugh. at 11:00 wednesday, programming reminder, set your time schedule, take lunch early, coverage of the giants parade will begin right here on cbs-5. one more look at that historic night last night in detroit. tigers...only one team finis pletely sati . >> reports from last night inside the wild clubhouse in detroit following the sweep of the tiger. only one team finishes their season completely satisfied. for the second time in three years it is orange and black. >> we are so excited. we had so many factors in here. hunter was not even here a few months ago. >> it is like it was meant to happen this way. it has been a grind all year. we stayed the course and are world champs. >> it is amazing how things come back around, for us to play like we did against this great club, i could not be prouder. >> reporter: it is a great story. the only thing that makes it grater is if the 49ers end up in new orleans for the super. so you have football and baseball. >> okay. football coming up now. keys

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. >> weather channel meteorologist jim cantore with maria today. feel like it was bad thought it would be? >> maybe a little worse, actually. there's water four feet high in the streets and cars floating round. it was a movie set everywhere ou turned. > rosie o'donnell snapping his pic of her dock in hambles. maria shriver, hyannisport overed in water. w yorkers turning into eporters on the web. of this building heap of rubble. tourist attraion today, a disaster zone. beep]. >> one man in his car floating own 14th street. > need to get out and get in a car. > and a jet skier on a new york road turned into a river. "the new york times" with this ime lapapse video as the storm hit. he donald hunkered down in his rump fortress, tweeting in "everything's normal" pic today. > my office is open, the building is a rock and doesn't budge. > this is the moment much of manhattan was plunged into arkness. wild video of a transformer exploding. crews furiously working to get electricity back on. > power outages for millions f people, not only for a day r two b

to illinois now, i want to go to jim in illinois. jim! >> caller: boo-yah, jim. this is jim from evanston, illinois, home of the northwestern wildcats. we love you. >> and i love northwestern. what's on your mind? >> caller: my question is rimm, should i buy or sell? >> no, we're not buying, no, no, no. salvatore in florida. >> caller: a big, big boo-yah from florida. >> i like that. go ahead, sunshine. >> caller: cisco. >> you know what? cisco, i thought they had a great quarter. i thought that things were starting to go well. and now i'm not thinking that way because telco spending is so bad, so i'm going to have to say stay away until we see the next quarter. let's go to joe in texas. >> caller: cramer, how are you? >> real good, how about you? >> caller: good, thank you, sir. mpc broke off. what do you think of that? lastly, my father-in-law, my uncle both early 60s think our economy will die if the president barack obama wins a second election. your opinion? thank you. >> i'm not a political guy. don't care for that question. marathon, i like. let's go to ro

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know, have snapped from the different trees around here, a lot of trees are down, as you mentioned, jim. and that's why crews are recommending that people be incredibly careful. when you come outside, they rem that you stay inside. this thing could be dying down, but the thing is right now, at times, as you can see, it continues to pick up a little bit. you can hear it with those branchs and the trees swaying back and forth. it's important for folks just to be careful when you come out here. guys? >> shomari stone, thanks. >> some of the trees that are falling onto houses, richard jordan is in northwest d.c. tonight where some homeowners are going to have a lot of cleaning up to do once sandy leaves town. richard? >> reporter: yeah, doreen, we're getting just another strong burst of wind and that's what keeps bringing these trees and branchs down. some of them really small and then just a few minutes ago, this large branch came down. it snapped and just fell. right in front of our eyes. we heard a loud pop and all of the sudden, half the tree was there on the street. and then the real b

>> caller: hi, jim. jim, with "twilight" coming november 16, my stock is lionsgate. >> i think it continues to creep up over time. it will get there eventually. matt in texas? >> caller: what do you think of united health? >> insurance is good. the growth in the economy is real. let's go to kevin in new york. kevin? >> caller: boo-yah, jim, sticker ttsh? >> man, that's too hard for me. i'm going to take a pass on that one because those guys have been hit or misses. i need you in accenture. >> caller: jim, how are you? >> good. how you? >> caller: good. my stock is aet. >> buy, buy, buy slams. >> stephanie link and i were kicking ourselves. why didn't we buy aetna? why didn't we buy aetna for the trust in let's go to janice in pennsylvania. >> caller: boo-yah, jim. hartford financial? >> goes higher. >> buy, buy, buy! >> i know becky had a big interview. i want to see that interview. john in virginia, john? >> caller: i got crm, november 145 calls. >> wow, you know what? keep them. keep them. you're playi

jim johnson did not have a good night the night before. the ninth inning last night, easy work of the yankees. alex rodriguez striking out of the very end. the series now heads to new york all tied up at one game per piece. >> it was a very different mood in the clubhouse compared to sunday. >> steve gilbert caught up with the heroes of monday's win. >> after sunday night's game when judging -- when jim johnson gave up five wins, everyone afterwards said they had no reservations about him getting the ball again. he did. he proved very worthy. >> we'll trust each other. we just know we're cord to prepare for a game. we're all grown. we all have each other's backs. i have never been in the clubhouse like that before. that is what makes it more special and more fun. >> normal. he was missing location last night, something he rarely does. he has no fear. i do not think any of us doubted. >> you obviously want to get a win going into home fans -- going into the home game. good for us to get go wind and momentum. >> you could not overstate the i

jim range the separates fact from fiction. we have new information about the internal obama administration debate about what to call the deadly attack on the u.s. mission in libya. this comes as we hear an f.b.i. team has come and gone from benghazi. world leader turns 60 in style. "special report" from washington starts at 6 eastern. now we'll send it back to new york with my colleagues with "the five". >> last night it was tk obama at the first debate in denver. how did he react today? >> so you see the man on stage last night, he does not want to be held accountable for the real mitt romney's decisions and what he's been saying for the last year. that's because he knows full well that we don't want what he's been selling for the last year. governor romney may dance around his positions, but if you want to be president, you owe the american people the truth. >> so kimberly, a little different today than last night, huh? >> well, let me tell you, maybe he did some pushups or something because he seemed more fired up. but also

>> glor: jim axelrod, thank you, jim. the weather threat is also throwing presidential campaign plans off course. with nine days until the election, both candidates adjusted schedules. both canceling events in virginia to focus on other swing states. jan crawford reports. >> reporter: in washington, the president was briefed by fema officials working to coordinate the government's response to the storm. >> this is a serious and big storm. >> reporter: sandy has turned campaign schedules upside down, especially as senator mark warner said in his home state of virginia. >> the storm will throw a little havoc into the race. i was supposed to be with the president and president clinton on monday. that rally has been canceled. >> reporter: the latest polls shows virginia now a dead heat and an important state for romney if he's to win on november 6th. he canceled three campaign events today in the state and instead spent the day in ohio with running mate paul ryan. >> let's, today when we get home, put in our prayers the peopl

we want to begin with the weather channel's jim cantore on the tip of lower manhattan. >> reporter: where i'm standing in about 24 hours, there's a very good chance i'll be standing here in waist-high water, if i were still standing here and i won't be. here it is on satellite as you mentioned, just a huge cloud canopy, currently about 523 miles to the south of new york city, there's a very low pressure to this so to the wind field is 900 miles wide this. s-path that we have seen for the past several days, brings the center within 100 miles of the the city. four to eight inches possible, the jersey shore, the south shore of long island. then six to 11 feet, this is what prompted the evacuation orders from the mayor of new york city. new york harbor on theorth shore of long island dealing with six to 11 feet. the national weather in new york says this will be the highest storm surge ever in new york city, that's what they are predicting at the national weather service so far. look at the rainfall, we're up from last night. locally a foot in new jersey. the biggest difference this year is s

jim smith: i'm voting for question seven. ken ulman: i'm voting for question seven. stephanie rawlings-blake: and i'm voting for question seven. it's heavy lifting. you start with a democratic senator named ben. by getting bwi-marshall funding for new runways, he's helping us serve 21 million passengers a year, which helps keep 100,000 jobs that depend on the airport, and that means more cargo for more businesses and more skycaps unloading more taxis... welcome to bwi. ...carrying families with more luggage. thanks. it's like he's out here with us. he's my friend, ben. i hope he's your friend, too. i'm ben cardin, and i approve this message. >>> the cast from disney on ice were on hard wood. the stars are in town for the rocking ever after. today was all about promoting a healthy life-style for kids. >> being physical, being part of an energetic event is grate to be part of. growing up playing sports, it gives you good instinct. it's building a new generation of healthy kids. >> they're still rocking. >>> coming up, we're continuing to track hurricane sandy. >> she's

good to talk to you, sir. >> great to talk to you, jim. thank you. >> i think the lack of exposure to the actual ups and downs of oil and the terrific secular growth of sustainability is going to make it so this acquisition is going to drive this stock of clean harbors higher. after the break, i'll try to make you more money. >>> coming up, stock up? storm warnings sent consumers stockpiling supplies. but which retailer could realistically see the biggest bump from all the buying? cramer's got the play. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] some day, your life will flash before your eyes. ♪ make it worth watching. ♪ the new 2013 lexus ls. an entirely new pursuit. chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico, see how much you could save. >>> every time hurricane season rolls around, someone always asks me if there's a way to play the storm. year after year, i almost always say no. a hurricane is an event too widely known and understood to make any real money off of it. but this year, i'm going to give

that was jim with us. that was a street side view of what we saw, 50 homes in the breezy point neighborhood of queens, 170 firefighters on the scene, want to give you a different look at this. this is a wideout shot. dee see the depth and the -- you can see the depth and the length of this. this is so big. he said no one was allowed to stay in the community. mandatory evacuations he was filing that report from a church where a number of people were told to get out. see the firefighters on the scene, 170 strong. this is a tight knit community. this is a heart breaking story out of new york. one you have not heard the last of. this is a story we hear about, if not through the rest of the day today, days to come. >> so many stories coming out of new york and here in our community. >> you worry about your safety and property and whether you are going to lose power or not. all a concern with sandy and hundreds of thousands are in the dark. what bge is saying about getting the power back on for you. >>> sandy sh

it's only going to get colder as the night goes on...tigers manager, jim led thinks a l .. >>> temperatures are expected in the 40s. it's object to the form going to get colder as the night goes on. thanks a little home dug out advantage will kelp the goaders we have heaters for both game or notly. you can't be worried about how cold it is. after heartly in 34 degrees and i wanted and slight been and i can throw the ball pretty dwell that night. i don't expect weather is going to be nice of a weather. i'm not thinking hasn't what it is i'm going on the map. >> it's cold for the fans, beer, it's great, enjoy it. >>> today, tae they've cancelled all their games for november, so they're playing in russia for the screen pretty past. it's in stable ton provisioningy team went two to over. they'rest nateing they're going to lose over $700. they seem to get it together. >> i kind of like minor league hockey games. >> i do. >> a little more cloud here. >> you have to sane fran disco bulls. >> you're things in town, it's a good thing. >> it's good that the giants are still going and may having the d

committee a group of congressmen worried about governments sending the committee chairman is congressman jim jordan. you want to cut poor people off? >> we want to help them get to a better life. we create programs that help people get to a better life. >> i have heard that before. it by not waving t-- o d? wavering the work requirement like this administration did. >> just to be fair they haven't totally waved t waived the work requirement. >> they are letting some states not have a worj requiremek requ. that one key element that helps people get to the american dream experience greatness and get a job and grow and get to a better lifestyle. >> work. >> the key ingredient to accomplish anything that we all learn. >> but how? that was already in the original healthcare reform act. you have a new welfare reform act. >> with all of the spending the government does it's about 600 billion a year when you factor in medicaid and the 70 plus different programs that are out there. >> the original act just was welfare didn't hit the other 70 some programs. >> there are so many nutrition programs job

and in the third inning, there was a two-run single and the o's would end when more and in the ninth, jim johnson, striking out alex rodriguez to end the game. whether you are at camden yards or watching at home, you can feel the magic. every family talked to who was not wearing a new york church said this one was the best game they ever experience. everyone is feeling the orioles magic. >> awesome, i have been a season-ticket holder for 20 years and this is awesome. >> we did a great job and we will go to yankee stadium and it will have a brand new series. we will take the alcs. >> once again, the orioles had to the bronx where they will play the yankees in game 3 of the alds to maronite at 7:30. if they can win two of the next three games, they will advance to the alcs. tickets went on sale this morning on the orioles.com. they could potentially host three of the games and tickets will be limited and will likely sell out quickly. we have been checking ulocal for the biggest orioles fan and this guy might be it. this is an impressive orioles had collection. -- hat collection. show was yo

good evening jim. >> the stock futures are looking up. europe is good. we have very good numbers from bp and we have good insurance numbers. in our country ford 40 cents i was only looking for 30 cents. the bed spring maker, look for that stock decline. kroger spoke with the cfo this morning when i was talking with squawk on the street and it looks like they had a good month of october. take a hard look at the union pacific csx cold plays because i think that is a safer way to play coal. we talked earlier in the show about the coal chart and how they looked better than expected back to you. >> well, you thought sandy was done with. it has turned into a blizzard in west virginia. we have dispatched janell klein in snowshoe, west virginia. >> reporter: hurricane sandy has dumped two feet of wet heavy snow. 26 inches in red house, maryland with a state weigwide blizzard warning. closing schools in 39 counties and leaving more than 300 people in the dark tonight. the blizzard has closed 45 miles of a major interstate between the border of west virginia and p

jim smith: i'm voting for question seven. ken ulman: i'm voting for question seven. stephanie rawlings-blake: and i'm voting for question seven. >>> they knew exactly what they were doing. this is surveillance video from a jewelry heist in georgia. they smashed into the store, grabbed jewelry and took them and minute the owner said the thieves used a manhole cover to break through the doors. >>> thieves wanted the cash out of this atm in california, so they took the whole thing. surveillance shows the man breaking in tie as tow attached to a vehicle outside and they yairchgd the machine right out of the store leaving behind a mess. police said this crime obviously was planned out. >> it doesn't appear it was at the whim but they decided to go in there. they knew what they wanted and they wanted that atm machine. >> the owner is also out $5,000 that he paid for the machine and paid thousands for the repairs. >>> we're used to seeing this birds on the design are table at thanksgiving but not wandering around our neighborhood. more than 100 turkeys have invaded town. so

jim thome will be playing his 70th post season game. here he is at 42 years of age. still, he managed to beat buck. buck showalter talked about that. >> the more you're around guys like him, gem mi walks through the door like his first game in little league. he's enthused, uppete, approachable. so many guys with his resume aren't approachable sometimes. >> reporter: i'll tell you what. we have fallen in love with this club and tonight they're sending miguel gonzales to the mound. many have taken the trane to get here at the bronx. abc2's don harrison was here. >> they're wearing their colors proudly and they're looking for a party. everyone is in a hurry to get to the game. yankee stadium is ready and the new yorkers showed up in their red, white and blue. the orange and black attack are here and they are pumped. >> we waited 15 years to get back into the playoffs. never came up here to a game before. >> reporter: mike ander ri -- and eric are brothers from catonsville. >> it's going to be outnumbered. >> orioles fans were in a good mood going into the game. let's ho

jim smith: i'm voting for question seven. ken ulman: i'm voting for question seven. stephanie rawlings-blake: and i'm voting for question seven. >>> and you're looking at a live picture of nags, head, north carolina, as the country anticipates and braces for hurricane sandy, this is a monster of a storm, you see the seafoam developing there and spraying towards the camera. it's going to be cold there as well, not good news. >> this is just the early signs there. you see matt gutman walking into frame. this is the early sign, this is rehoboth beach. we're expecting days and days of much, much worse. good morning, america, i'm dan harris. alongside bianna golodryga. that's the first time i have ever mispronounced your last name. bianna golodryga, everybody. it's october 28th. we're talking about that epic superstorm this morning. in a few moments, we'll tell you about the travel delays this storm has caused. it hasn't even made landfall. hundreds of flight cancellations and it's threatening to cause a domino effect for air travel all over the country. amtrak traveling

(laughter) jim? >> well, it's not revenue neutral unless you take away the deduction. >> let me just -- >> you haven't given me the math. >> well, i don't have-- it would take me too long to go through all of the math. >> stephen: great answer. (laughter) why-- (cheers and applause) great answer why is it a great answer? well, it would take me too long to explain but trust me t was a great answer. (laughter) besides the american people don't want to hear math. that's why ryan seacrest's top 40 countdown didn't catch on until they added songs. (laughter) now obviously the math behind how romney can give everyone a 20% tax cut without bankrupting the government is just way too advanced for us regular folks to understand. it's unfathommably complex like string theory. you would have to grasp that the universe is actually 11 coexisted dimensions. eight of which are where romney shelters his wealth. (laughter) just trust him, just trust him. (applause) the middle class is broken down by the side of the ro

i'm jim cramer. see you tomorrow.

and then it came down once again to jim johnson going for the save.. and he gett the groundout to in the game. the yankees retain a one game &plead over the o's with one game tooplay for each team. the o's must winntonight and &pp one game playoff for thee - east croww. that game would bb innbaltimore tomorrow iiht. for the orioles save.... which places his seasonnas one of the best ever forra reliever. and sooe local entrrpreneurs are his season.ll want more than 3 season.. joel d. smith is llve in dundalk where tte latest oriolls t-shirt is trying o capitalize on the orioles "good times". good morning joee d. &p3 33 3 3 3 theeffist of three take place tonight in denver. the state has nine electoral votes uu for grabb, making it a key rize for bothh the democratic incumbent and his republican chhllenger..-ain. preview. final preparations are underway for tonight's first presidential election debaae showdown between president obama and republican candddate mitt romney will take place at the universityyoo denver. unlikeedebatessof tte past... organizers

before the game, at six, we talked about who you think might be big, and i said jim tomey. he's up this inning. >> up until the 9th inning this crowd was like -- >> the new york public library. it was quiet in there. what a night of baseball we're watching. >> reporter: fans, what you did on monday and tuesday set the tone. no way did this yankee crowd come close to a fever pitch. what a road trip it's been for miguel gonzalez. he's on baseball's biggest stage with his california high school coach sitting in the stands. >> i'm fired up watching him and talking to him earlier today. it's special. >> reporter: lots of orange in the stands. one man couldn't find the words. because he doesn't speak english. he's >> well i hope he gets the win tonight. again we're tied up 2-2 in the top of the 12th inning. it's been an the creedable night. -- thecreedablee night. -- incredible night. >> we're keeping our fingers crossed here. >>> for everything orioles check out our web site. we have a live blog following each step of each game and for some amazing fan photos just head to abc2ne

and that is where jim cantore is. >> reporter: and a good note, too, con-ed knew this was coming and shut down the power, just could be a major catastrophe in terms of electric. and i want to take you back, here we are, this is probably about 30 yards from the actual railing here at the sea wall. i'm going to walk back as far as i can. and you can see the water coming here in waves here. just like mike, we're going to try and light this as fast as we can, and show you. but this is as high as the park bench is here, the two and a half, three feet surge here, the highest for battery park in new york city. when can you remember this? being in manhattan, lower part of town, brooklyn, not seeing any lights, we have had many, many power surges here tonight, and we're talking about it looking like the fourth of july. the water continues to roll in. we understand now, we've just heard a report in the subways, the water is starting to enter the subways, and that is what we heard from irene, we know the surge is two feet higher than that so now the water is coming in the sub wways. we understa

jim smith: i'm voting for question seven. ken ulman: i'm voting for question seven. stephanie rawlings-blake: and i'm voting for question seven. >>> when do you put up the lights. >> parts of texas is looking like christmas. some people say it may be a little too soon. and the mayor made her view clear in a tweet she calls the early holiday lights stupid. >> i say wait until after halloween it is around the corner. >> premature. >> i guess so. >> we want to hear from you. >> and you. >> it is too early. go to facebook leave your comments we are curious what you think. >>> lauren is here. the picture was sent in by vanessa miller and donovan who is a fanatic. he is dreaming of a win. we posted it on facebook and generated a lot of comments. sign me upky catch it with my eyes closed. >> and next stop super bowl. that would not be too bad. >> we're enjoying them. i need some photos for next week so e-mail them. >> i like it. >> thank you. >>> take a look at this a massage parlor is offering a new service the owner thinks it will be a hit with the customers. take a look.

i have not been in a clubhouse like that. >> jim johnson said he had no confidence issues. what they're doing is one of the favorite sayings. trying to sleep fast. getting ready for game 3 which is wednesday. yankee stadium at 737 pm >> fans are scrambling to find tickets. how much it will be paying to follow the orioles on the road. >> if you want to go to new york, you had better have some cash. so here you are. the yankees and orioles are tied at one each and your thinking about going to new york to see a game. how much is all that going to cost you? if you take a plane from the debut like to new york, we found a ticket price at $449.60. a cheaper way to go would be on the metrobus -- megabus at $40.50. the easiest would be on the train. that will cost to depending on the time of day around $125. if you decide to spend the night, the price of a hotel will very from $84 a night at a two star hotel of 29 hundredfold $95 a night and up. if your plan -- you are planning on going, that ticket will cost [indiscernible]0 >> fans have benefited and they're more hesitant to spend

at the waldorf astoria hotel is jim acosta. jim, i thought romney delivered his lines pretty well. he is obviously not a stand-up comedian. you don't even hear him cracking a lot of jokes. tonight, i thought he did well. >> reporter: from my vantage point, i think he did pretty well, too, wolf. this was about the best seat i could get this evening to watch the festivities. the car exhaust is making the jokes even funnier, if you don't mind me adding that. picking up on what you were talking about a few moments ago, the zingers were flying. governor romney did throw a few in the directions of the president and the vice president, perhaps a little more so than the president directed at mitt romney. i thought that was interesting. they were sort of in line with his stump speech. he talked about those jobs numbers and the president's reaction to the jobs numbers meaning that you are better off now than you were four weeks ago. he did a big bird rif and talked about how the sesame street letter for the president is "o" and the number is 16 trillion. sort of a dig at the president on the

set the stage for us, jim. what are we about to see? >> reporter: the alfred smith dinner, we are told that speech will begin at 9:05. he gets to go first. the president gets to go second. as you've noted and as we've been reported, this is typically a light-hearted affair. we have been reporting all day long that the gop nominee was in debate prep for most of the day. i should report that i did hear from a senior romney adviser that said that mitt romney also worked on this speech for this i evening. it was serious business earlier today when he was working on his material for later on this ink. wolf, keep in mind, i have noticed out on the campaign trail following mitt romney, the candidate does have a sense of humor. sometimes the jokes may come across unintentionally. he does have the occasion where he does intentionally tell some jokes and shares his humor. the dpoes over very well. we were here on september 25th when he spoke in front of the clinton global initiative. after bill clinton introduced him, he said he was waiting for t

the committee chairman is congressman jim jordan. what do you want to do? cut for people of? >> no, we want to help them get to a better life. what you need to do is create programs that actually help people get to a better life. john: ever done before. >> you do it by not waving the work requirement like this administration did. you -- john: to be fair, they have not totally waived a work requirement. they let some states experiment. >> they also let some states not have a work requirement and there sang were not going to require that one key element that helps people get to the american dream, experiences. did the job. that is what we want to see. that key ingredient to accomplish anything that we all learn. john: how? that was already in the original welfare reform act? we have a new welfare reform act, updated version. >> for trying to get a handle on all of the social welfare spending the federal government does. estimates are 600 billion the year when you factor in medicaid and the 70 plus different programs that are out there. john: the original act was just welfare. d

accuweather's jim dickey. the size of this thing, that's what makes it so spectacular. don't pay attention to category 1 or anything like that. it's the size and how long this thing is going to hang around. days majority of the week, the real danger here. >> once it really forms with the two cells. it gains strength. frightening. >> feeding off the cold front and jet stream. >> kinetic energy. energy in motion. >>> well, the governor of connecticut is calling sandy the largest threat to human life in this state and anyone's lifetime. utility and road crews are standing by to work on what could be major power outages. a record storm surge, threatening more than 300 homes forced evacuations along the coast. governor dan malloy said the last time we saw anything like this was -- never. >> telling quote. >>> there are dire predictions about the power outages ahead. potentially millions of people without electricity for many, many days. >> and utility companies are doing what they can to get ahead of this disaster,

i'm jim handly. >> i'm pat lawson muse. hurricane sandy is churning north, killing at least 29 people. >> utility companies up and down the east coast are warning for the potential of widespread outages for days, folks. both maryland and virginia have already declared states of emergency. and in virginia, the navy ordered all ships in the hampton roads area to move out to sea away from sandy's path. >> because this hurricane is being combined with a strong cold front from the west, that in the wake of this storm, as opposed to excessive heat, we're expecting cold temperatures, 50s during the day, 40s at night, and in some of the western parts of the state, in the 30s. in fact, there's actually a threat of heavy snow in the western part of virginia, as well as west virginia, maryland, pennsylvania and other places. >> let's get the latest on sandy's projected path and the possible impact on travel in the washington region from storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson. >> we're really talking about a big wet mess that will

>> mason: jim axelrod, thanks, jim. that was dramatic rescue at sea aboard a ship you may recognize from the movies. and two presidential campaigns are derailed by a hurricane. that's ju,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> mason: the hurricane forced the presidential candidates to suspend their campaigning for a couple days. john dickerson is our political director. john, with just a week until election day, how is this going to affect their campaigns? >> reporter: well, no candidate wants to look like he's taking political advantage of this cry seusz so with a week before the election this should be a time of frantic political activity but now the campaigns have to pear way back and calibrate every political move. usually at this time the campaigns are trying to hone their message down to a single simple closing argument to punch through the voters. but that's been interrupted and complicated now. both men have canceled a series of campaign events. the president has an official role and his strategists are trying to both highlight that r